Living longer and better through technology
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Getting old isn’t easy. But these days, there are all kinds of new technologies helping older adults live better, longer. This Friday, UCLA’s Center on Aging will host a one-day conference exploring how high-tech advances can enhance the lives of seniors. Can surfing the net teach old brains new tricks? What’s an ICU robot and what can it do for you?
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More info about UCLA's Technology & Aging Conference.
Guests:
Dr. Gary Small, Director, UCLA Center on Aging
Dr. Neil Martin, Chairman, UCLA Department of Neurosurgery
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3 weeks, 1 day ago
This is all very nice but isn't this kind of technologoy one reason precisely why our health care costs are going through the roof ? When are our healthcare providers going to acknowledge that all this wonderful technology is contributing to the US health care system cost crisis ?
3 weeks, 1 day ago
No thanks to surgery by smart phone. Imagine the consequences of dropped calls.
3 weeks, 1 day ago
What's interesting about this space is that lots of these things save a lot of money on healthcare, but aren't covered by insurance, so aren't paid for as a preventative measure. Just fall management can save big problems, but there are some LA County studies that only 30% of seniors and their caregivers even know that there are assisting technologies available.
My own dad fell several times and had a diabetic coma while living alone -- we had NO idea there were tools to make sure that he was ok besides putting one of those button things around his neck (which he hated and wouldn't wear). Even a sensor system would have saved me a lot of time off work to check on my dad and would have helped our relationship in that I wouldn't be checking on him all the darned time.
Prevention and home care enhancement just isn't important to our insurance or way of thinking as a culture. It isn't medicine and isn't pitched by big-lobbying companies.